Fox News’ Fake Specialist Lectures Donald Trump To Beat The War Drums Louder On North Korea And China

The “Fox News Specialists” show hosted a four-person discussion on the very dangerous situation with North Korea yesterday without a single real specialist. And yet, cohost Eboni Williams, a former criminal attorney, spouted off a demand that it’s time to be more warlike with North Korea and China.

The name of the show is an insult. Rarely, if ever, is there a expert on the subject being discussed. The only specialty that Fox seems to care about is politics.

In that vein, yesterday’s guests for what should have been a serious and informative discussion on North Korea’s ballistic missile test on July 4th included Evan Siegfried. His website says he's a “political strategist.” He says he once “served in the United Nations" but doesn’t say in what capacity. I have to believe it had nothing to do with shaping foreign policy.

The other so-called specialist guest was Alyona Minkovski. Her website says she's an “independent journalist currently writing political commentary.” It also says she hosted a show that appeared on the Russian television network, RT, and she is the Russian-born daughter of a Russian legislator. Make of those latter facts what you will but she is clearly not someone most people would turn to for insight into North Korea.

Minkovski disagreed with Siegfried that more sanctions are what’s needed now. “Sanctions just don’t have a good track record,” she said. “So they’re not really a viable solution.” She recommended “just having a dialogue.” And, she happened to be referring to Russia and China. The Russians, she said, “are a very stubborn country and so the more that you try to clamp down, the more that they are chided by the international community, the more resistant and stubborn they will be.” She recommended making Russia and China “feel like they’re partners who are needed.” A convenient message just in case Fox News fan Donald Trump was watching, two days before his big meeting with Vladimir Putin, eh?

Cohost Eric Bolling, whose Fox News bio describes him as a business person and former baseball player, suggested that China would not be of help. “Does Trump have to try something other than bringing China to the table?” he asked cohost Kat Timpf. And, yup, she’s another one with no foreign policy or national security experience.

Timpf said she doesn’t know why China is “not being more concerned” about the situation given that a confrontation between the U.S. and North Korea would be a “nightmare.” But not curious enough to bring in someone who might be able to tell her, apparently.

Next, cohost and fauxliberal Eboni Williams weighed in. Fox News describes her as a former journalist, talk radio host and criminal attorney. But she spoke like she thought she should be a national security adviser to Trump. And she didn’t just leave her advice at North Korea but threw in her unqualified advice on Iran, too:

WILLIAMS: I don’t think anybody thinks it’s going to get [to World War III], Eric. I think that’s the problem, that people have seen president – you gave us a beautiful laundry list of presidents who have really not – completely failed, been completely inefficient.

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I think sanctions make us feel good. That’s the problem I have with the Iran deal. There’s no way to really enforce them, therefore they become completely ineffective. And I will tell you, Eric, I believe President Trump talked very tough on China as a candidate. I think it’s time for the tough to follow through.

Later, after Bolling suggested we spend “a couple hundred billion” on cyber attacks against Korea, Williams had more advice.

WILLIAMS: To me, the options are getting more and more limited with each passing year, right? … I’m open and willing to any and everything because containment doesn’t work, the sanctions haven’t worked and by golly if it’s cyber, then let’s do that.

The situation with North Korea is precarious. It’s beyond irresponsible for Fox to host four amateurs on the subject, call them “specialists” and let them spout off as though they’re the real thing.

Watch the deception below, from the July 5, 2017 "The Fox News Specialists."

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“I think sanctions make us feel good. That’s the problem I have with the Iran deal. There’s no way to really enforce them” Nice touch of cynicism there, RTV lady.

The Iranians signed the Iran deal because the sanctions against them WERE effective. The sanctions made us feel good and the Iranians feel bad. If the sanctions against Russia are so ineffective, why do Putin’s people bring them up so often?

What legitimate female foreign affairs expert would join a show hosted by Eric “Boobs-on-the-Ground” Bolling? The link you provided on Bolling reveals the confusing format of Bolling’s show. How does a show get named “The FOX News Specialists” when 3 out of five of the people on the show, by their own premise, are guaranteed NOT to be specialists? The site says the “specialists….provide a unique and unpredictable analysis on [sic] the stories trending in America”. Here’s my analysis “on” that: Most of Bolling’s “specialists” are unpredictable and unique precisely because they are either subject-matter amateurs (but not media amateurs) or spin experts. This was reality TV with minor celebrities tasked with acting like experts.

Its Faux News you don’t expect intelligent informed comment there or from anyone else on the place.
The only thing you will get is as in Australia where Murdoch owns 70% of the Newspapers & Pay TV is Murdoch the crook thought of the day.
From the Man who brought you IRAQ $20PB oil as a reason for invading Iraq

You’re misinterpreting the title! The Fox News Specialists are akin to war zone “specialists.” They are paid contractors brought in to be led to say the things the network doesn’t want attributed to its hosts, but sure as hell wants said. :)

Trump could rape Bolling’s wife and son and Bolling would be on-air telling us what a great move it is for America. His foreign policy is SMASH!

IIRC, Eboni K. Williams is a former Miss USA/America/whatever. Maybe that beauty pageant (Trump-owned?) experience prepared her for Iran.